So, last week in Spokane, I saw these industrial looking contraptions made out of plumbing pipe for hanging pictures and such. I love all things industrial and thought to my self, “Hmmmm, this doesn’t look complicated and I think any idiot (including myself) could make something similar”.

Off to the plumbing aisle of my local hardware store I went. This is the best project because everything screws together and the possibilities are endless. I actually built my industrial necklace holder/ recipe holder right there on the floor of the aisle – it was great fun and really only took about a minute.

These are the parts I bought for this project, the plumbing parts totalled about $20 and the wood base cost $5:

I screwed all of the other parts together per the picture and screwed this to the flange.

pulley detail

But, then I decided I didn’t really need a necklace holder, but a recipe holder would be sweet. All I needed was to add something to attach the recipes to. I do like hardware parts, especially pulleys, so I decided to paint some little pulleys and use them along with some twine to hold my vintage recipes up. I kind of like it myself….what do you think?

Snohomish, WA is where you’ll find me, architect mom,”drafting a life”;working from home as an architect, managing my family’s lives, forgetting to clean the house, building some crazy thing or another, sometimes cooking a great meal and always packing my kids horrible lunches.